Extra Credit: TED talks education

The video of “TED talks Education” is about sharing a deep commitment to addressing the high school dropout crisis. In this video different people with different careers on the branch of education got united as colleagues that are fitting for the same reason: stopping the school dropouts and become better teachers. Some of those people are Rita Pierson, Ramsey Musallan, Angela Lee Duckworth, Bill Gates, Geoffrey Canada and Sir Ken Robison. Rita Person is an educator who believes that connections (relationship) between students and teachers are very important to maintain a very high level of understanding. She emphasized that the reason why kids dropout is poverty, low attendance, negative peer influence and many others. There exists teachers good and not so good, an example that she gives is about a colleague of her that said to her: “ they don’t pay me to like the kids, they pay me to teach a lesson, the kid learn it case close” now do you think that’s the way a teacher should behave? Of course not! I believe that a good relationship between students and teachers are those that have a powerful connection and understanding, united both of them for the only reason to become a better a person, to be successful!  Ramsey Musallan a chemistry professor spoke how that easy way to maintain his students motivated was through the method of curiosity. Kids are natural learn it and it is normal that the want to learn something that they don’t know and find really interesting. He said that teachers most form new methods of learning which will encourage the  students to get involved in the lessons, that will made them curious to the point that they want to ask questions.

What it takes to be successful in school? Angela Lee Duckworth acknowledges us with her theory that in order to be successful we have to be greedy, greedy on achieving all what we want. She said “what we need in education is a much better understanding of students in learning from a motivation perspective”

It shows a girl named Melissa Perez who was at risk of dropping out of school, she wasn't interested because she dint have a motivation that could help her to keep fitting. She was a mother at an early age and with the support of her math teacher she could fight and stay in school and become the first person in her family that graduates from high school. This is a good example on how many students feel alone, with no one that can help them and without motivation, this sort of stuff make them drop up.  

Bill Gates argues that the system is not fair for the teacher and neither the students, the teachers are not receiving the necessary feed-backs that would help them to be better. He said that unites states is in first place in failing in giving our teachers what they need. They want to create a new system called MET- Measures of Effective Teaching, this system will be based on the system of China where they help teachers improve and find the better way to teach. He said that provide that system and the tools that the teachers may need an investment of 5 billion would be need it which is only less of 2% of a teacher salary. Sir Ken Robison argues that education is based on conformity, that principal reason of teaching is learning. He also emphasizes that dominate cultures imposed that we don’t need teaching and learning but testing!  We live in a place where to be someone we need to have a good level of education otherwise we are nothing for the society that’s why they will isolate us and forget about us!